Chris Power: AI compute depends directly on Taiwanese semiconductor security
Chris Power · The Factory of the Future with Chris Power · Nov 18, 2022 · at 22:36
Chris Power is the founder and CEO of Hadrian, an advanced manufacturing startup. He argues that even non-defense industries like AI research rely directly on secure physical chip manufacturing.
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“You know, even, even if you're an EA type of person or, you know, you're a pacifist or whatever, or if you're into climate change or like, you know, pick, pick any industry that you think is important. Like good luck running compute on GPT-III if there are no chips or China takes Taiwan and then the only chips you can buy have like a bug in them. You know, like it's not that hard to take a line to draw and it's like very serious, you know.”
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